Provocative appeal

Huge amounts of raw meat crammed into long and transparent cubic glass containers, stand facing one another in an open space, dotted with marble pillars.

Artist Gu Dexin uses this spatial arrangement as much to express feelings of anger, happiness and jealousy as his radical views on social reality.

One of China's leading contemporary artist, whose works have been shown at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Gu's latest work on display at the Beijing Center for the Arts at Ch'ienmen 23 Quarter, uses everyday materials.